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Quotes About Power

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.
~ Edward G. Robinson
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
~ Donna Tartt
A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.
~ Prabal Gurung
Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen.
~ Rick Riordan
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
~ Unknown
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
~ William Hazlitt
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
~ Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
~ Baz Luhrmann
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
~ Florenz Ziegfeld
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I understood early that beauty was power.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
~ Van Cliburn
The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.
~ Gary Zukav
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
~ Victor Hugo
June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.
~ Marie Lu, Legend
But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
~ Marianne Williamson
Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.
~ Edi Rama
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
~ Annie Dillard
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
~ Thomas Gray
I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
~ Gustave Courbet
Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
~ William Butler Yeats
Never underestimate the power of denial.
~ Alan Ball